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Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Nutter Securities Enforcement Update: March 1, 2024

The Nutter Securities Enforcement Update is a periodic update of noteworthy recent securities enforcement activity, settlements, decisions, and charges. We provide brief summaries that highlight recent enforcement action...more

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Navigating Uncharted Waters: Challenges and Considerations in Auditing the Ownership of Crypto Assets

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The rapid rise of crypto assets has presented both opportunities and challenges for auditors, with regulators, practitioners, and businesses grappling to establish clear guidelines and procedures. Even though there is no...more

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Common PCAOB Inspection Findings and Actions Firms Can Take to Improve Audit Quality and Reduce the Risk of Regulatory Enforcement...

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In July 2023, the PCAOB published the spotlight, “Staff Update and Preview of 2022 Inspection Observations.” The article summarized the PCAOB's common findings from its 2022 inspection season. Many of the findings observed in...more

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Sweeping PCAOB Proposal Seeking to Alter Auditors’ Role in Detecting Noncompliance Is Likely to Entangle Auditors in Complicated...

On June 6, 2023, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) proposed new auditing standards that would substantially broaden auditors’ responsibilities for considering an audit client’s noncompliance with laws...more

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PCAOB Releases New Audit Committee Resource for 2023

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The PCAOB recently released a new Audit Committee Resource, which sets forth an updated set of questions that audit committee members may want to consider incorporating into their ongoing engagement with auditors....more

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PCAOB Releases New Audit Committee Resource

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The PCAOB recently released a new Audit Committee Resource, which sets forth questions that audit committee members may want to consider incorporating into their ongoing engagement with auditors. The categories of questions...more

The Volkov Law Group

The KPMG Debacle – Five Former KPMG Employees and Former PCAOB Employees Indicted for Fraud and Conspiracy

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KPMG has been taking it on the chin lately – and apparently for good reason. KPMG is enmeshed in an unfolding corruption scandal in South Africa. Add to that the indictment last week of five individuals (four KPMG employees...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

The PCAOB, Audits, and Compliance - Considerations for the Chief Compliance Officer

I recently had the chance to visit with Joe Howell, the Executive Vice President of Workiva LLC, to discuss, among other things, the function of the Public Companies Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and what role it might...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Godspeed to John Glenn and Failures at Deloitte

Last week, I paid tribute to Greg Lake. It turned out that the first full week of December was the final week for several important, if not seminal, figures. So this week I will pay homage to those who have left us, today I...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Joe Howell on the PCAOB, Audits and Compliance – Part IV

This week I have been exploring the Public Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) with Joe Howell, an Executive Vice President (EVP) with Workiva Inc. We have considered how some of the issues addressed by the PCAOB directly...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Joe Howell on the PCAOB, Audits and Compliance – Part II

Today we have Part II of my exploration with Joe Howell about the PCAOB and how its work with public company auditors impacts anti-corruption compliance. I asked Howell about auditor rotation and what it means. Howell...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

This Week In Securities Litigation

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In a burst of post-Labor Day energy, the SEC filed a number of significant actions. Those include a series of actions arising out of the audit failure by BDO; actions centered on a financial fraud at an on-line lender; cases...more

Broker-Dealer Compliance + Regulation

SEC to Broker-Dealers: More Oversight, Fewer Madoffs?

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a Final Rule last week amending certain annual reporting, audit, and notification requirements for broker-dealers in the broker-dealer reporting rule (Rule 17a-5) and the...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

U.S. and Chinese Regulators Sign Historic Memorandum of Understanding Regarding Enforcement Cooperation

On May 24, 2013, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) announced a breakthrough in its years' long log-jam with Chinese regulators over access to audit firms' documents located in China....more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

PCAOB, Auditors And Executive Compensation

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, or PCAOB, has reproposed a new auditing standard, Related Parties, and certain other amendments to its standards. Overall, the reproposal is directed at detecting material...more

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